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Morris tribune., 1887-01-26

wou:d have left Robbery. took the
pole he gave ME and went out on
the restless waters that | telt were
blood-red where the setting sun had
touched them. People on The oppo
site side cheered, and cried and called
me, and Robbery behind called out
once or twice, "Ship ahoy!" in a
shrill voice that knew and loved bet.
ter than anything on earth and once
heard him say fa;ntly--he seemed
80 far away--"In port at last"
At last!
The people on shore had ceased their
shouts OF excitement and encourage
ment; the light had died utterly away
In an awful silence and an awful
darkness jumped to land and held
out my hands.
Robbery! Robbery" l cried, 81
want to thank YOU"
Did Robbery hear, sir, do you
think? Do people hear anything, do
people understand anything after
they have gone away?
| only knew that the awful silence
was turning me to stone, that the aw'
tul darkness was rising like stone
wall between me and Robbery, and
was afraid. When called no one an,
swered, and | was glad. Ii his voice
was silent any other voice would have
maddened me Just then, and | wanted
nothing more to tell me all the truth
| learned through the silence on land
and sea how God had answered my
prayer.
They told me afterward how the
plank he was launching to help him.
self to the shore drifted away from
his hand and was out OF sight directly,
how they would have saved him j
they could, and how, when they be-
gan to shout to him directions, hi
made q sign for silence and stood
straight upon the sill, with the sunset
creeping all about him and the water.
washing at his feet. They wondered
why he had made no effort to reach
the shore with me; they used to won
der for long after why he had stood SO
silent, with his eager eyes and restless
feet so strangely still. | knew, oi
course; but what right had any one
else to come between me and Bob
berry? 1t wouldn't have done any
one any good to know what !
knew that Robbery wouldn't let
me lose the faintest chance; thought
my blind, helpless life quite as
well worth saving as his own.
would have done the samefor him, sir
any day, for Robbery and me were al
ways fond of each other.
The story's been longer than
thought. sir, but just the evening and
the floods again, and your wanting to
know about the cross, brought it back
to me like the same evening somehow,
an its company like to talk of the
lad. And Robbery? he just died, sir;
and the folks thought such a deal Of
him that they collected q bit to set
me up, and took half of the money
just to put this little cross by the
river side, for we always divided the
coppers, sir; and l havn't forgot him
not in these two years!
That's all, sir-just all about Bob,
berry.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26

New York claims to have more OF
her sons in the senate than any other
state. They are Leland Stanford OF
California. born in Albany county;
Henry NJ. Teller OF Colorado, in AL
leghany county; John r. Mcpherson
Of New Jersey, in Livingston county;
Henry B. Payne OF Ohio, in Madison
county; john n. Dolph OF Oregon, i'll
Schuyler county; Charles B. Farwell
of Illinois, born in Steuben county;
Cushman K. Davis of Minnesota, born
in Jefferson county; William NJ. Stew
art OF Nevada, born in Wayne county;
Algernon S. Paddock OF Nebraska,
born in Warren county and Frank
Hiscock, just elected.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26

Henry B. Stanton recently died in
New York at nearly 80 years OF age.
He was An able lawyer, q gifted news
paper writer, and % splendid orator.
He became interested in the antislav-
cry agitation, and left everything to
engage in crusade against slavery.
Wherever his voice could be heard he
spoke for human freedom, rapidly es-
tablishing fame as a speaker second
only to that of Wendell Phillips. But
he retired from the rostrum some
25 years ago and engaged in newspa-
per work, and his fame was entirely
overshadowed and forgotten in the
prominence achieved by his wife Eliz,
abeth Cady Stanton.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26
The Journalist.

The chief requisites for journalism
may be summoned up thus:
1. A good English education. Learn
first to write English; Imean plain,
straight, quick Saxon, sturdy and
1.-THE as sapling, Let your Latin
and Greek adornments come in after
ward. Study the history OF the world,
of the United States and Great Britain
and Ireland; and study everything
else that you conveniently can.
Drill yourself in writing swift, sharp,
vivid yet graceful accounts of every
thing that comes under your notice
putting it picturesquely but never at
the cost of cleal ness and brevity.
2. Common sense.
3. Good Judgment of the relative
Importance of subjects.
4. Obedience, patience, punctuality.
5. In spite of all these virtues don't
be sprig. However much knowledge
your brain may hold, never do or say
anything which will lead the wise to
charge you with being touched by the
malady known as "b;g head;" conceit,
the wise call it.--George Parsons
Lathrop in the Chautauquan.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26
1t Helped Both Ways.

DR.. S. Weir Mitchell, of Philadel-
phia, is almost as we'll known as re-
counter as he is as a physician. One
OF his stories is a personal experience
which occurred during the war. Re
ports OF cruelty to the Confederate
prisoners confined in the military pris-
on at Fort Delaware were sent to the
Federal headquarters, and commit
tee of gentlemen, among whom was
DR.. Mitchell, visited the prison to IN
vestigate the matter. The reports
were found to be exaggerated and
most OF the prisoners limited their
complaints to an insufficient supply OF
tobacco. One of the men, whose uni
said he had been granted his exchange,
but had no money to return to his
home. DR.. Mitchell emptied his peck
cts and gave him $50. ITO whom
am indebted Tor this loan?" inqulr-
ed the officer. DR.. Mitchell told his
name, but added. "Never mind where
live; give it to the next Union soldier
you find who needs it as badly as you
do, and I will consider that sufficient
payment" The doctor returned to
Philadelphia, the war came to an end
and he had forgotten the incident OF
the rebel prisoner, when one day
stranger, dressed in the uniform OF a
Union soldier, entered his office and
inquired if he was DIR. Mitchell. The
Doctor said he was. 'Dr. S. Weir
MITCHELL" the man asked again. THE
same" said the Doctor. "Then !
have some money to return to yoc
which you lent me through the conted-
crate officer you found in prison at
Fort Delaware. He gave it to me to
pay my way back to the North" and
the man handed the surprised doctor
$2O.-Philadelphia Press.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26

The Duke OF Sutherland. vino has
been in Washington this winter, owns
Tery large tracts OF land in this coun-
try, aggregeting, it is said, $4,000
acres. His possessions in Great Brit
ain cover 1858, 545 acres. yielding
an income Of 97Q8, 335. lie also mas
100000 invested in Scotch
railroad. He is the owner OF Dunro-
bin Castle, Loeb 1nver Hoase, House
OF Tongue, Tarbet House, and Castle
Leod, all in Scotland. and Stafford
House, Trentham Hall, LllleshalJ
Hall, and Chie!den, in England.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26

The final estimates OF the cereal
crops OF the country for the season Of
1886 show that the wheat crop turns
out almost exactly 100000, 900
bushels more than in the short crop
year OF 1885, being reported at 49,
$4,000 bushels The yield of corn
falls short of the extraordinary pro-
duction of tbs previous year by
about 27O, ooO,OoO but yet reached
1,165, oOO,O 900 bushels, which is above
the average OF previous seven years,
and is therefore satisfactory one.
The crop of oats, with the exception
OF that of1s85,is the largest on record,
peing 624, 900 bushels. To show the
Importance Of the decline in the price
of wheat it, is only necessary to state
that while the yield in 1879 was only
p trihe larger than in 1885, that crop
was valued at oyer $195, 900, 600
more than the recent one.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26
The Craze to Go Oh the Stage.

New York Graphic: "You would be
utterly surprised" said theatrical
manager to the casual recently, eff
you knew how many well-known So
ciety people, especially of the fair sex,
come to my Office and express de-
sire to become an actress, and your
astonishment would be greater if you
knew their names. Ladies of wealth,
to whom money is no object, have
urged and entreated us to let them
appear on the stage, Offering to pay q
goodly amount for the privilege. On
ly few days ago lady of fashion
and culture drove up in her elegant
carriage, and expressed q most earn
est desire to become member of the
company. She had been tolerably
we'll drilled in elocution, but knew alb
solutely nothing about acting. l
asked her If she would be willing
ing to appear as q soubret, to
which she replied firmly in the
negative, adding that she under
stood everything in the PROBES.
sion well enough to fill a: leading
role. This settled the matter, and
she departed without more ado. She
is an exceptionally handsome woman
extremely fascinatingin conversation,
but she was not willing to begin at
the bottom round of the ladder, and
so we had no use for her. Young men,
whether rich or poor, must, as an
almost invariable rule, begin on the
st age by exclaiming, My lord, the car
riage waits, and young women must
be willing to dust furniture and say
Yes, ma am,' for some years, certain
ly for many months, before they play
prominent parts. The art OF acting
has now well nigh reached perfection.
The highest art is to conceal art, you
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26
The average duration of life has been

The average duration ofIife has been
made the subject offresh investigation
by German statistician, who finds
that the lowest average is for the day
laborer (thirty-two years., and the
highest among those who engage in
manual toll is among the gardeners,
sailors and fishermen, ffty-ei years.
The professional occupations come
even above regular open air occupa-
tions,a as the averages given show forty
nine years for physicians, fifty-four
for iurists, tiity-seven for teachers
and sixty seven for clergymen.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26
The Army of American Invalids.

From the New York Tribune.
The United States to-day has very
large army OF wealthy invalids, an
army that seems to be On the increase,
too, and one that goes moaning up
and down over the land seeking health
and finding none. Everywhere you
go, where location and climate have
anything to offer or healing waters
containing aught OF good to assist ma
ture in her struggle to lengthen out the
days of those who have more ducats
than digestion, you will see the anxious
eye and the halting gait OF those who
have fought the fight for gain, and
now, crowned with victory and misery.
find themselves in the great national
hospital that. moves about from
Moosehead Lake to Tacoma, to Los
Angeles, to Jacksonville, to Duluth, to
Denver, to Asheville, to Minnetonka,
to Sante Fee, to the Hot Springs and
the Cold Springs, to the iron springs
and the soda springs, to the dry air OF
the mountains and the wet air OF the
sea, with no home that they can call
permanent and no sure thing for the
future but q will contest, and the long
starless night of death.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26

The number of cigars upon which
tax was paid i'll this country last year
was $50, S9S, SIS, which is equal to
SIS and one-half cigars to every person
in the country, placing the popula.
ton at 6O,OOO,0OO The number Of
cigarettes on which tax was paid last
year aggregates 1,31O,961, $50, an
increase OF 252, 212,112 over the pre-,
ceding year, while the increase in ci,
CARS consumed during the same year
was Isl ,925.S2J
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26

The Dominion OF Canada is as poor
fy defended by bulwarks and guns as
the United States. Historic Quebec:
perched on q hill formidable in tbs
days OF Montcalm, but now merely ar
elevated target for modern shells. II
has only two or three guns that would
be OF service in time ofwar. st. John
IS still worse off, and the minor ports
could not keep out an ordinary iron.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26
Women Hanged in New York.
Utica Herald:
Utica Herald


Four instances of the hanging of
women in this State are recalled:
Margaret Houshtaling, alias Peggy
Dinsmore, was hanged at Hudson,
Oct. II, 1877, six weeks after her in
dictment for the murder of her child,
and few years afterwards q woman
on her death-bed confessed that she
was guilty of the murder, and not
poor Peggy. Mrs. Van Valkonberg
was hanged for poisoning her husband,
at Johnstown, Jan. "a, 1916. Gov.
Wright declined to interfere. Mrs.
Runkle of Utica, was hanged at Whites
boro in 1S49. Ann Hoag, for killing
her husband by poison, was hanged
May Z, 1852, Gov. Hunt refusing to
commute her sentence to imprison-
ment for life,
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26

The Philadelphia Ledger thinks
there is an epide nic OF rheumatism
this winter, and says that crest 10,
the brain, the body, and the digestion:
and diet OF hot water and cheerful
ness, is the treatment best warranted
TO bring the sufferers right" Tha,
may do for Philadelphia rheumatism
but other cases may not yield to such
mild treatment, though useful as al
auxiliary.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26

know, and people who ses well. per-
formed play nowadays are very apt
to think, II, indeed, they do not say,
How easy it ali is; could do DIS well
myself Phe fact is that it is very
difficult for beginner to even walk
across the stage properly"
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26

Edward Atkinson, in an able articls
iii the Century, we'll worth reading by
all students OF political economy in its
broadest range, puts this searching
question: May not the time be mean
at hand when it shall no longer b,
lawful for one generation TO mortgage
the labor OF the next by any national
and perhaps by any municipal debt:
When pay as you fight becomes the
rule, will not war become impossible?
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26

New York city put nearly S64, 700.
600 into new buildings and alterations
to old ones last year. the absolutely
new structures numbering 4.O95, and
taking sos, $50 900 OF the total sum.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26

The president entertains some doub.
i'll regard to certain features OF tbs
interstate com merce bill although thu
supposition is, OF course, that he will
approve it.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26

The Railway Gazette reports total
OF l15 accidents in the United State
during the month 81 December, i:
which 35 persons we're killed and l2..
hurt.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26
BILLS PASSED.

An act prescribing the time for the holding of
general terms of court in the Ninth judicial dis
trict.
An act authorizing the city of St. Paul to issue
bonds to increase the sewerage fund and for
other purposes.
An act to authorize the city of St. Paul to is
sue bonds for extending, etc, the water works.
An act to authorize the city of st. Paul to
issue board of education bonds.
An act to appropriate money for the expenses
of the Mississippi river commission.
An act to authorize the city of ST. Paul to
issue bonds for retiring old waterworks bonds.
An act authorizing each town in Meeker
county to support its own poor.
An act authorizing the village council of
Madison to use village funds for the moving and
repairing of the court house and Jail.
An act to extend the corporate limits of the
city of Northfield.
An act TO amend section r. chapter &C.
General Laws, 1881. amending an act incorpor-
ating the village of Fosson.
The report that the comfy committee
of Polk county be authorized to issue bonds
to build bridges was accepted and the bill
passed
The report of the committee of railroads
recommending the passage of the DonneIIy
bill amending article 10 of the constitution,
and relating to the regulation of railroads,
was accented.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26
MISS HopGoOD's TEA CAKES.

One dozen eggs. one pound of buttel
one pound of sugar, one pound and
half of -four, one-half ounce of nutmeg
and mace each. two pounds of clean,
dry currants; if the currants are added
damp they will make the cake heavy.
these cakes can be baked in small
,hapes. or in large tin, and cut in
squares they are far nicer than most
other tea cakes. Ice if you wish.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26
DRESDEN COFFEE CAKE.

Melted butter one pint white sugar
two pounds, mace one-quart Of milk;
add flour sufficient to make stiff bat
ter; beat little, and then set it in a
warm place to rise; that is. make it up
at night and let it rise until morning:
then add one pound of stoned raisins,
work we'll through, and half fill your
cake molds; let bake half an hour in a
hot oven.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26
JOHNNY CAKE.

Rub into one quart of dry meal a
piece of butter the size of large egg.
Then wet with milk or water. Spread
with spoon or knife in sheets or
board, if baked before the fire. This
can be well baked on a griddle, by TAX
ing small portion of the dough, Hat
ten and shape with your hands into
small cakes about half an inch thick.
TO be baked brown on both sides. In
stead of rubbing butter into the meal
you can kncad into it pork strips fried
brown. 1t is SO made IN some of the
Southern States,
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26
S45,750 90
1OLdl. .....', .......
Recapitulation of finances:

1885. 1856 Totals
Expenditure SIPS. sos II S39.054 81 Sl6S.622 %
Receipts. ...... 129. sos II 39,O54 81 16S,622 IS
Total amount expended by the society for i'm
Irovements more than state appropriation (lcss
the discount;
laid from earnings Of the exhibition of
1885 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $1,000 Co
Paid from earnings of the exhibition of
1886. Observation-Disclosures. 9,Ol4 90
Morris tribune., 1887-01-26

HOwRecruits are Trained for the Army-Six Hun.
dred Men Constantly in School on DaVid's
Island,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-28
l'IlE BAHAMA BANKS.
PAST HOLE m THE WALL AND
ON TO CUBA'S CAPITAL

The Wurd,rTrs Work OF the Coral Insect
Level as n FIoor--CapturinG shark
The Ke per of Double shot Head Keys
Lighthouse aud His Wife.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-28
LITTLE LAUGHS.
cenber, IS.

A man always Think he is on the wrong
tack when he sits down on one.-Irish
Weekly Times.
1t is queer that Queen Victoria did not con-
fer the Order of the Bath on some of Buffalo
Bills Indians. -Pittsburg Chronicle.
yam Phon Lee, the Yale Chinaman, is from
Fragrant Hills, China. Fragrant Hills is
probably the place where the dead animal
man of Pekin runs his glue factory. Cities
are cities, whether they be in China or
America Louisville Courer-Journal
This is the season of year when we are
thrown into the society of the man who rocks
the boat for fun if he goes out with you for
row on the lake or river. He never gets to
be over 80 years of age, and generally partici-
pates in double funeral. Beware of him.
Albany Journal.
Customer-Isn't it a trife large, Levi3
Levi-Larch, mine trent? Gracious! Ut you
geeps dot sphring coat on, unit your wife sees
it, your bosom will schwell init pride so dot
she'll hef to set dem buttons forvarts.-New
York Mercury.
~ can't come now, maw," said the high
school girl, when her mother called her to
you wouldn't interrupt me again. want to
finish The Model Daughter; or, Happy
Marriage and then must commence work
on my gradual ng essay, The Duty Children
Owe to Their Parents. '"-Norristown Herald.
We are filed with establishment at the re-
port that Boston boy recently spelled "haz-
ardous" "hazardess," and defined it as "a
female hazard" But the Bostonians are
weak if you take them away from their
native Greek-Pittsburg Chronicle.
~ want to be an angel" sang a female
voice in side room, and thereupon a heart
less wretch in an adjoining apartment broke
forth with: Johnnie, get your gun, get your
gun, gun, un."-Detroit Free Press.
What are the wild skeeters saying,
Sister. the whole day long?
Ever with buZZing and humming
The air seems filed with their song.
Why come the pesky old critturs
Abtin' poor sinners like me?
I'm mass of big Jumps A. Mira
From my head to the pan of my knee.
New York Journal.
Cheek is the tight rope upon which crafty
men often cross the chasm of ignorance to
success-W ashington Ratchet.
Politics makes strange bedfellows. And the
bedfellows do not sleep. They lie awake
watching one another. baltimore American.
1t is used as an argument, either for tenn
perance or the bicycle, that no bicycle rider
ever comes home drunk on his BICYCLE
Picayune.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-28
WHEN THEY WERE BORN.

John Gilbert was born at Boston in 1870
Frank Mayo was horn at Boston in 1899
Neil Burgess was born at Boston in 1916.
M.B. Curtis was Urn at Detroit in ISL
Digby Bell was bonn at Milwaukee in 1910.
Catherine Lewis WIS born in Wales in 1876.
Annie Louise Cary was born in Maine in
1872.
Georgia Cayvan was born at Bath Me-, in
1860
Mrs. john Drew was born in England in
1918
Efle Ellsler was born at Philadelphia in
1858
J. K Emmett was born at st. Louis in
1871.
Rose Etynge was born at Philadelphia in
1885
William J. Florence was born at Albany in
1881.
Clara Morris was born at Cleveland, O., in
1850.
Louis Aldrich was born in Ohio in October,
1913
Minnie Hauk was born at New Orleans in
1856.
Maude Granger was born in Connecticut in
1896
Kate Claxton was born at New York in
1s4S
Italo Campanini was born at Parma, Italy,
in 1916.
Milton MOBILES was born at Cincinnati in
1S47
Maggie Mitchell was born at New York in
1892
Charles w. Couldock was born at London
in 1915.
Modjeska was born at Cracow Poland,
in -
Fanny Davenport was born at London,
in 1850.
Emma Abbott was born at Chicago. Time
unknown.
Emma Albani was born at Prattsburg, N.
Y, in 1850.
Rose Coghlan was born at Peterboro, Eng
land, in 1853.
Etelka Gerster was born at Kassa, Hun
gary, in 1855.
Frank Chanfrau was born at New York in
February, 1924.
Christine Nilsson was born at Hussaly.
Sweden, in 1S43.
Lille Langtry was born at St. Helens,
Jersey, in 1850.
Carlotta Crabtree Gotta) was born at New
York in 1S47
Steele Mackaye was born at Buffalo in De-
cember, 1S43
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-28
Very SOciable.

1.-THE people of New York are not very
sociable, are theyW said western man, adj
dressing an acquaintance who lived in the
east.
"Well, l don't know but they are, although
they may be a little peculiar in that respect.
For several years l had my Office in a very
large building on Broadway. One day fell
low came in and asked if my name was j. W.
McFiddleton. l told him it was, and then,
after few moments silence, he said: My
office is just across the hall, and ever since j
saw your sign several years ago have been
intending to drop in and see you. l am
your brother, you know, and-well, how are
you getting along, anywayF Yes" con-
tinued the eastern man, "they are trifie
peculiar but after you get in with them you
find them very sociable "-Arkansaw TRAY"
eler
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-28
An ENGLISH RANSOM.

the various parts are bound together with
rawhide thongs or fastened with iron wood
pins. | don't know whether the iron wood
used is the same as we find in the states, but
do know it is very hard, tough wood, and
that the carts made by the Bots Brules of
Manitoba last about as long as any farmers
cart in New England. No, they wouldn't
last so long here on hard roads.
"Who are the Bots Brules. Well, they
call themselves natives, but the whites up
there call them halfbreeds and Bob Rulys.
They are descended from the Scotch trappers
Of the Hudson Bay company, and are brown
in color, hence the French term, bois bruleS,
signifying burnt wood.
"They harness a single OK to one of these
carts and it serves for every purpose to which
wheeled conveyance can I've put These
carts are also used by the Chippeways and
the Swampy Crees of Manitoba and Dakota. "
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-28

A. FAULKNER, General Passenger and Ticket Agent
IF. j. LAWLESS, Union Ticket Agent.